17 people reveal the grossest thing they have ever seen in a hotel room

Travel is usually one of life's greatest pleasures but sometimes rather unpleasant surprises present themselves.

This is especially true when hotels enter the picture. The truth is you never know exactly what you're going to find when you step into a hotel room for the first time and, as the following stories prove, what you do find might be quite gross.

Here, 17 Reddit users share the grossest thing they've seen in hotel rooms.

Of course, these anecdotes are just for fun and can't be verified by INSIDER.

"It looked like the carpet was dancing."

"Recently I was in a hotel with a few friends. I thought my eyes were going funny as when I looked down it looked like the carpet was dancing. Blaming the heat and dehydration, I sat down to get myself together. The longer I looked, the more it danced.

"After a short while, I realized the floor was literally covered in the tiniest little bugs. Super, super tiny, but that many of them that the carpet as a whole looked to be moving. Nice."– Reddit user csswizardry

"The ceiling was infested."

"Opened the door to a fresh, clean hotel room. I lay back on the bed, with my eyes closed and when I opened them, I noticed the ceiling was infested with spiders."– Reddit user MaximalDOMS

"It was being lifted up the wall by ants."

"I've traveled quite a lot over the years, and I've found my fair share of cockroaches in hotel rooms over the years. The most memorable, though, was dead. It was being lifted up the wall by an army of ants. They eventually dropped it and started again. I was aghast. This was somewhere in Java, Indonesia."  – Reddit user Triseult